Battery Life Razr Maxx sucks since ICS update.

[Squeak87]

The LTE Toggle for Thunderbolt works on the Razr Maxx as well for those interested.

(DR0ID RAZ® M@XX)

 

[MrTommy]

Not happy about the 4G thingie.....

Crap. First time on the forum in a month or so, and it's to 'carp'... Big complaint, like others have mentioned, is that I'm stuck in 4G mode. Luckily, there's little 4G around here (Carson City, NV), and my job as a truck driver takes me out where I'm sometimes lucky to have 1G! But, I remember finding that my phone used considerably less power if I just used it in 3G mode. Now, when I'm home (and on the road!), I've got to worry about charging the phone cuz I'm stuck in 4G (or the constant search for 4G). I've seen that link that is supposed to give you a way to lock into 3G, but darn it... I'm used to just clicking on that little 4G button on my front page and swapping back and forth at will. Why in the heck do I have to use some convoluted, time wasting chain of events to make it do what one press used to do? I thought this was an 'upgrade', making my phone better, not harder to work. Grrrrr.

 

[Trash Can]

The LTE Toggle for Thunderbolt works on the Razr Maxx as well for those interested.

Yes, it works, but the phone goes back to the LTE/CDMA default setting each time you reboot. :frown:

Personally, I think this is one of Verizon's new "features" to force everyone to use their 4G network to relieve 3G congestion. The thing is that 3G is just fine most of the time, especially while it's sitting idle in my pocket.

Regarding battery life on ICS.... I'm not impressed at all. As an understudy of Professor FoxKat, I've taken great care of my battery -- it was darn near perfect on GB. As soon as I installed ICS, the battery ran down so fast that I barely got to play with it. Absolutely horrible. So I did a FDR earlier today, shut it down, and then stuck it on the charger for several hours until full. I'm hoping for much better results tomorrow.

 

[T0M65]

I'm having the same problem with my RAZR. On Gingerbread, I would get a day of light to moderate use. Since I updated to ICS, battery life sucks. I didn't even use my phone yesterday except to make one call and send/receive about six texts, only to wake up this morning to find it dead. I think I even had it on the charger for a little while yesterday during the day. My wife's RAZR seems to be fine. Who the hell wants to factory reset because an update jacked their phone? This is my first smart phone and not happy. So much so that iPhone is looking pretty damn good right now.

 

[loonymike]

Nothing is perfect, even the precious iPhone needs help once in awhile.

 

[cbreze]

I'm having the same problem with my RAZR. On Gingerbread, I would get a day of light to moderate use. Since I updated to ICS, battery life sucks. I didn't even use my phone yesterday except to make one call and send/receive about six texts, only to wake up this morning to find it dead. I think I even had it on the charger for a little while yesterday during the day. My wife's RAZR seams to be fine. Who the hell wants to factory reset because an update jacked their phone? This is my first smart phone and not happy. So much so that iPhone is looking pretty damn good right now.

You say this is your first smart phone so maybe you just aren't aware that a hard reset is an occasional fact of life with these devices. I've chosen to not go for the ICS update as I'm quite happy with GB and status quo.but that said if I was updating I'd most definitely be doing a hard reset back to factory. It can solve a whole slew of issues. Just back up what you can and go for it. It's not the end of the world and may make your phone run much smoother.

 

[MrTommy]

Treading lightly...

So, I left my phone on the charger all night last night. Starting out at 100%. I'm curious (read that scared!) to see how long I get out of the phone today. I'd consider myself a 'moderate' user, though I've been messing with it more in the last day since I got the ICS upgrade.

Too bad you can't go back, huh..... :blink:

 

[MrTommy]

I've chosen to not go for the ICS update as I'm quite happy with GB and status quo.

I'm not sure you have a choice in this. I think at some point, don't you just bring your phone alive and VIOLA - they've upgraded FOR you?

 

[cbreze]

I'm not sure you have a choice in this. I think at some point, don't you just bring your phone alive and VIOLA - they've upgraded FOR you?

I'm still happy on 173 and have no plans to go forward. Why mess with what works for me? I have frozen the updater so no worries and no prompts. I love my Maxx as it is.

 

[T0M65]

You say this is your first smart phone so maybe you just aren't aware that a hard reset is an occasional fact of life with these devices. I've chosen to not go for the ICS update as I'm quite happy with GB and status quo.but that said if I was updating I'd most definitely be doing a hard reset back to factory. It can solve a whole slew of issues. Just back up what you can and go for it. It's not the end of the world and may make your phone run much smoother.

No, I was not aware of this. Thanks.

 

[94lt1]

Moving to the battery sub forum

DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED!!!! PREPARE TO BE VANQUISHED!!!

 

[Wongway]

So for all of you with the drop in battery life, make sure you change your network setting to cdma/lte...the default was global. I changed this setting when I first got the update and my battery life was at least on par with gingerbread. Give that a try and see if this helps at all

Duh... I never even looked at that one, thanks, I'll do that and see how things go now.

 

[toddbrooks515]

I've done the factory reset and every other suggestion....the battery still drains away in no time...hopefully a patch is released soon to fix this

 

[dmisc]

I'm still happy on 173 and have no plans to go forward. Why mess with what works for me? I have frozen the updater so no worries and no prompts. I love my Maxx as it is.

How do you freeze the updater? I too am staying on GB for a bit. At least until all these battery issues have been resolved.

 

[foreigndude]

+1 with the same issue. I upgraded to ICS last night, left the phone on charger over night while sleeping. It's been discharging since 9:35 am...right now it is 5:20 pm and I am at 59% with very light use. Prior to the update, my battery would have been at about 70%+ under same circumstances. Not very happy with this and I really hope there's a patch coming out like right now.

Prior to the update, I was normally running LTE, Background data, Location, and often both wifi and bluetooth, just to see how long the phone can go with all that turned on. Today, only my LTE and Background Sync are on.